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The act of Parliament [which?] of 1767 held out £5,000 for improvements to Tobias Mayer's lunar tables and the Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. c. 66) halved the amount offered for any method or instrument achieving the degrees of precision outlined in the original act (i.e. £5,000 for a degree, £7,500 for 2 ⁄ 3 of a ...
Until 1800, these circulated at a rate of 4/9d for 8 reales. After 1800, a rate of 5/– for 8 reales was used. After 1800, a rate of 5/– for 8 reales was used. The Bank then issued silver tokens for 5/– (struck over Spanish dollars) in 1804, followed by tokens for 1/6 d and 3/– between 1811 and 1816.
Running time: 35 minutes (1999) 40 minutes (2000) ... £5,000: 19 Australia £3,800 18 Barbados £3,600 17 ... £1,800 8 Majorca £1,600 7 Monte Carlo £1,400 6
a 30 hour [working week] element (£775) a mildly or moderately disabled worker element (£2,530) a severely disabled worker element (£1,075) a 50+ return-to-work payment (discontinued after April 2012).
1800 │ 1850 │ 1900 │ ... the 1.25% increase would temporarily apply to NICs. The aim was to give HMRC time to make the changes required in order for the levy to ...
Trade union membership more than doubled during this time, from 2 million people in 1901 to 4.1 million in 1913. [160] The Labour Party for the first time gained an active foothold in Parliament with the election of 30 Labour MPs in the 1906 General Election, enabling greater advocacy for the interests of the working classes as a whole.
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Up to 1908-1909 the tax above the abatement limit of £700 remained strictly proportional but opinion showed a decided tendency in favour of extra rates or a supertax on incomes above an assigned amount (e.g. £5,000), and this was included in the budget of 1909–1910.